One of the guys at Rise Vision is so steeped in the digital signage business he has a slick interactive display up and running in his kitchen. Mat Meiers, the company’s lead creative designer, designed a screen layout to display calendar events, grocery lists, to do lists and family photos in his Kansas City-area kitchen. […]
Whether this is better termed a kiosk than digital signage could be debated endlessly, but what’s more interesting here is how a company has figured out a way to make projected capacitive touchscreen technology to work reliably in the crazily harsh environment of a car wash. […]
Panasonic and ComQi have worked out a partnership to market technology that connects smartphones with digital signage displays, using encoded light signals embedded in the screens. […]
This is an interesting take on using digital signage to deal with lengthy dwell times in a fast casual restaurant setting: an interactive display patrons can monkey with while their custom pizza bakes in the nearby oven. When Zablong Pizza opened in Charlotte, NC earlier this year, the operators wanted an interactive experience from the time people walked in. […]
Digital Signage Expo is planning an informal tour and mixer on the Queen Mary cruise liner, which has been a part of the Long Beach, CA waterfront for many years as a working museum hotel and restaurant. The August 10th event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the ship. […]
This is a massive new interactive video wall at the newly renovated Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It’s a 16- by 12-foot interactive media wall that prompts visitors to explore, collect, and save their favourite objects from the museum’s collection, using the museum mobile app. […]
This week, I am speaking with Vincent Encontre, the CEO of the Toulouse, France-based interactive software firm Intuilab, which has a great product for reducing the time, cost and complications of getting interactive touchscreen projects together. Encontre talks about the company’s roots, servicing companies like Airbus, and how it pivoted into interactive digital. […]
This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital installs done to date, globally. […]
If you are interested in emerging tech you might want to set aside an hour next Tuesday, July 12, for a webinar I’m running with a couple of interesting UK-based companies. The session, put on by Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu Linux, features Nikodem Lacki, CTO of Boldmind, and Ebrahim Busheri, CEO of Lime SDR. […]
A new conference has bubbled up for the industry this fall, this one called Interactive Digital Signage Technology and slated for Sept. 21-23 in Baltimore. Yeah, Baltimore. […]
I’m not sold on the idea of digital signage marketplaces when it comes to selling software and gear, but where I do think it can make some real sense is for packaged-up content and creative. […]
I’ll leave it to people who code, and their masters, to determine if this is, in some way, relevant to the digital signage market, but from my unschooled perspective this new open source interactive display software from Google looks pretty interesting. […]
The NBA’s Toronto Raptors had a good playoff run once their key guards remembered how to shoot, but the ownership and management team is also using less obvious cues and clues from visualized data to build the club’s future. […]
Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is the final part of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. […]
American friends who’ve come up to Toronto for a visit or on business have tended to marvel at the sight of big buildings along major roadways that say simply: BEER STORE. […]
